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Chinese website C Technology has posted a video showing a powered-on Blue iPhone 5C. A person unlocks the iPhone, which has the upcoming iOS 7 and then uses the Safari showing that the device is legitimate. Apple will be announcing the new iPhone 5C at a media event tomorrow at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. We will be doing live coverage of the event on live.TechZTalk.com. Join us tomorrow at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST for complete coverage of the iPhone 5S and 5C launch event.

Apple has sent out invitations for their iPhone media event and in a twist to the usual Apple media event, the company will have two events – one in US on September 10 and another one in China on September 11th. The September 10th event will take place at 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 1:00 PM Eastern Time at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. Whereas, the September 11th event will be held at Beijing’s World Trade Center at 10 AM local time.

Apple’s invite has dots of various bright colors with a tagline “This should brighten everyone’s day.” The colored dots are a hint at new iPhone 5C (lower cost iPhone) that will come in white, blue, green, yellow and orange/red colors.

Along with iPhone 5C, Apple will also announce the next generation top of the line iPhone 5S that will feature a finger print sensor and new A7 processor.

Rumors are Apple will be using the Beijing, China event to announce their partnership with world’s biggest carrier China Mobile and launch phones supporting China Mobile’s network.

We will be doing live coverage of both the events, so join us on live.techztalk.com for complete coverage and analysis of both the Apple events. Coverage of September 10th US iPhone event will start at 10:00AM PST/ 1:00PM EST and coverage of September 11th China iPhone event will start at 10:00 AM local China time / Sept 10th 7:00 PM PST/ 10:00 PM EST.

“Our personal technology needs are evolving rapidly, and people expect better design,” said Charlotte Johs, Logitech global vice president of brand development and portfolio for PC accessories. “Whether it’s a computer, tablet, smartphone or touch-navigation device, people are looking for thin, modern design that works fluidly. We created the Logitech Ultrathin Touch Mouse to give people an ultra-portable mouse that complements today’s MacBook and Ultrabook computers.”

Using Bluetooth with Logitech Easy-Switch Technology, the Logitech Ultrathin Touch Mouse can connect wirelessly to your laptop, desktop and tablet at the same time, and you can easily switch among them with the flip of a switch. The mouse is rechargeable through USB and just one minute of charge time gives you enough power to keep working for another hour.

The Logitech Ultrathin Touch Mouse T630 in black and Logitech Ultrathin Touch Mouse T631 for Mac in white will ship in September priced $69.99.

Check out the sexy Logitech ad for the new mouse below and you can get more info on Logitech’s website.

Sony updated their NEX 5 series with new NEX-5T mirrorless camera and introduced a new smaller/cheaper DSLR, Alpha 3000 featuring an E mount adaptor for lenses.

Sony NEX-5T uses the same 16.1 megapixel sensor as previous model, but adds fast Hybrid AF that combines phase-detection autofocus to track fast moving subjects with contrast detection AF for precision, speed and accurate focus. The camera also gets NFC for easier WiFi connection with your smartphone, PC or TV for wirelessly transfer of photos or videos as well as

Smart Remote Control functionality via smartphone. Smart Remote Control is now updated to Version 2.0, adding Autofocus control directly from the touchscreen of your linked smartphone or tablet (requires installation of latest version of PlayMemories Mobile). There’s even more power over your image with fingertip adjustments for EV compensation, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. In addition, MF Assist lets you accurately check focus of portraits and macro shots on your phone or tablet’s large screen.

The second camera that Sony introduced is a combination of DSLR and mirrorless camera because it has a DSLR like body and design, but it’s actually an E mount featuring mirrorless camera. Sony says that α3000 brings you the picture quality, manual controls and artistic possibilities of a DSLR in an easy to use camera with interchangeable lenses.

“We will be introducing a new wearable concept device called Galaxy Gear at our own event in Berlin on Sept. 4. The Gear won’t have a flexible display. The new device will enhance and enrich the current smart mobile experience in many ways. It will lead a new trend in smart mobile communications. We are confident that the Gear will add meaningful momentum to the mobile industry.”

Lee Young-hee also said that future wearable devices will use flexible display, but the smartwatch that will be launched on Sept 4 will have a “non-flexible display”. She added Samsung has been preparing the smartwatch product for a long time.

Since the rumors about Apple launching a smartwatch started earlier this year, Samsung executives have been constantly talking about how Samsung has been working on smartwatch for a long time and even released concept photos of smartwatches. So that people won’t see them as a me-too company following Apple again, like they did with smartphones.

The highly vocal analyst Ming-Chi Kuo posted in a research note that Apple would kill iPhone 5 when they release iPhone 5C next month. Kuo says that cheaper iPhone 5C will replace iPhone 5 and Apple will keep the iPhone 4S as lower end iPhone model. Kuo also says that the new iPhone 5C will sell for $400 - $500 unlocked.

If priced $400 iPhone 5C will be almost $250 less than current unlocked 16GB iPhone 5, about $150 less than current unlocked 16GB iPhone 4S and about $50 less than unlocked 8GB iPhone 4. While offering iPhone 5 like specifications.

According to Kuo, Apple will likely have iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C and iPhone 4S for their holiday line-up this year.

It looks like the rumors about Apple adding a third color (gold) to the black and white iPhone line up will be coming true. French website MacBoutic has posted photos showing the back plate of the rumored golden iPhone 5S. Also KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has confirmed that Apple will be launching iPhone 5S in three colors Black, White and Gold.

Another iPhone 5S related rumor, it will come with 128GB storage option and A7 chip based on ARM's 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. It is very likely that Apple will bring 64-bit hardware support to iOS devices because they started adding 64-bit support on the software side with iOS 6.

It’s almost given that we will be seeing the next generation iPhone that will be called iPhone 5S next month. Rumors about iPhone 5S started as soon as iPhone 5 was launched last year. However, those rumors are now distilling into some solid news and below are rumors that we think will come true:

Home Button with Fingerprint Sensor: According to Ming-Chi Kuo, a very reliable analyst, iPhone 5S will have a convex home button with imbedded fingerprint sensor. As the convex home button could be more easily scratched, so a harder material is required. Apple will switch from plastic to sapphire, whose hardness is second only to diamond. Sapphire would protect the home button from being scratched and the fingerprint sensor from being damaged.

A7 Processor: iPhone 5S will feature Apple’s next generation A7 processor. The new processor will be based on Cortex-A15 core and Power VR Series 6 graphics chipset. Rumors are Apple will go with quad-core configuration for the A7 processor, but it’s very likely that Apple might chose dual-core configuration to keep overall power requirement down.

Camera with Dual LED Flash: Many leaked photos have shown that iPhone 5S will use dual LED setup for flash, which should result in better indoor photography and more nature skin tones. As far as megapixels go rumors range from 8- to 13-megapixel. However, the latest rumors claim that it will be an 8-megapixel sensor with F2.0 lens for better low light photography.

Colors: Along with white and black colors the iPhone 5S will also come in gold color. iPhone 5S will be available in three colors rather then two.

Launch Date: ALLThingsD claims that Apple will unveil the next iPhone at a special event on September 10th. They have been accurate with these sort of Apple rumors in past and so we believe that iPhone 5S will be announced on September 10th and ship next Friday September 20th.

Apple today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes users have downloaded more than one billion TV episodes and 380 million movies from iTunes to date, and they are purchasing over 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day.

“HBO GO and WatchESPN are some of the most popular iOS apps and are sure to be huge hits on Apple TV,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We continue to offer Apple TV users great new programming options, combined with access to all of the incredible content they can purchase from the iTunes Store.”

In addition to HBO GO and WatchESPN, three new content providers* are also available today on Apple TV including Sky News, Crunchyroll and Qello offering live news, sports and current TV programming. All the new channels are available via software update.

9to5mac’s Seth Weintraub got a peek at what early beta of iOS 7 looked like and they have posted some photoshopped pictures showing what the new application icons and UI looks like in iOS7. As you can see in the image above Apple is going for flatter look with Helvetica Nueue Ultra Light like font. Seth also notes:

Perhaps most interesting: There are two color schemes for many of these apps – one black-ish and one white-ish. We’re not sure if they are A/B decoys, if white iPhones and Black iPhones will have their own color schemes or as someone else suggested, the different color schemes might be invoked by the amount of ambient light or the time of day. But it is super-interesting, especially since we’ve heard whispers that the whole UI might shift slightly based on external factors similar to the way the music volume icon switches based on how you hold the iPhone.

In the article on 9to5mac, Seth also talks about other design changes like 5 dots for representation of signal strength and the rumored Airdrop feature. Check out the article on 9to5mac.